Photos: Five Reasons to Think Taylor Swift Is John Mayer’s “Paper Doll”

On Tuesday, John Mayer unveiled a new song, called “Paper Doll,” that many on the Internet figured was written about his erstwhile girlfriend Taylor Swift—perhaps as a late rebuttal to her 2010 lyrical open letter “Dear John.” MTV and various gossip outlets argued that Mayer’s line “Someone’s gonna paint you another sky” was a callback to the “Dear John” lyric “You paint me a blue sky and go back and turn it to rain.” They also suggested that Mayer’s “You’re like 22 girls in one” was a clear reference to Swift’s “22” single, which was released earlier this year.

Not satisfied by mere textual analysis, however, V.F.’s resident Taylor Swift historian, Sarah Ball, scoured through our Swift archives for other similarities. There she uncovered five photographic clues that suggest that the flighty clotheshorse Mayer writes about in “Paper Doll” is indeed the coy singer-songwriter. Ahead, the scarf, mint-green dress, and other wardrobe items that could be the source material for Mayer’s “Paper Doll.”